Lilly Jensen

Although a well put together doc, it falls short for me. The filmmakers decided to put more focus on the tall tale of ‘slenderman’ itself, and heavily sympathize with the perpetrators over the victim. They interview multiple friends and family members of the offenders, but fail to feature the victim, her friends and family, or her story at all. (I don’t know if it was her and/or her families choice to exclude her from the film, but if that’s the case, they shouldn’t have released it in the first place.) It seems like they want us to feel pity for Geyser and Weier, which shouldn’t be the objective of a crime documentary, especially in which they are the ‘villains’. I understand that they were children, and both found to be mentally ill in court, but to hold their stories above Leutners - it just feels, ultimately, really gross.

uh, it feels like beetlejuice, if beetlejuice was made by a really kinky person.

it’s pretty silly. i was definitely expecting this to be a children’s movie, but seriously not this much lol. the filmmakers knew their audience would be insanely diverse, but didn’t appeal to all of them. it’s much more similar to miss rachel than a film that belongs in theaters. the storyline barely makes sense, the acting is more than over the top, the jokes are odd and the plot is honestly overdone. the only (kind of) positive thing to take from it is the cinematography. 🤷‍♀️